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internal 400GB HDD DVR (47hrs HD), 2.5 hrs HD recording on Blu-ray disc, available
in Korea for $5,000 (right), HDMI out
(720p/1080i) EPG.
At the same 2006 show, the company
announced their BD-P1000 player planned for
release on April 06, $1000 MSRP (but also
quoted as $1200), consult the 2006 HDTV
Technology Report for the original
specifications on the announcement; the
updated specs are further below.
Although it was earlier commented that
Samsung would also produce a player that would support the HD-DVD format, it was
negated at CES 2006 time.
Updated specs of the BD-P1000 player (Jun 06)
Supports DVD playback, CD Audio, MP3, JPEG photo display, can read BD-ROM,
DVD-Video/RAM/-RW/-R/+RW/+R, CD-RW/-R. Reading of BD-RE/-R discs required
the original unit to receive a firmware upgrade.
The player can also read CF,
MicroDrive, MS PRO/Duo, SD, Mini SD
and RS MMC cards from its built-in
card reader. The first firmware
upgrade was supposed to fix
compatibility with 50GB Blu-ray discs.
Video formats supported: MPEG-2, VC-
1, H.264, and JPEG.
Outputs Blu-ray disc, DVD selectable
upconverted as 1080p, 1080i, or 720p
(HDMI), and unscaled DVD disc as
576p or 480p. 1080p resolution over
HDMI only.
It is suited with HDMI, Component
Y/Pr/Pb, Optical/Coaxial S/PDIF, and built-in Memory Card Reader, BD Java
interactive capability.
A late addition to the player was an 11-in-two multi-memory card interface, instead
of the originally announced nine-in-two reader.
Samsung’s proprietary single pickup with two-lens technology for DVDs and CDs in
addition to Blu-ray discs, pop-up and always-on menu options, full color highdefinition
animated button, improved bitmap and text subtitles, audio formats
include multichannel uncompressed 192kHz/24 bit audio LPCM, Dolby Digital, DTS
and MP3, 216MHz/12-bit video D/A converter.
Without getting into performance details that most probably the reader already
knows by now, this Samsung player had several performance problems upon
introduction that rendered an unacceptable soft image. Samsung acknowledged the
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